The Arizona Court of Appeals will hear oral arguments on a high-profile medical marijuana case on Dec. 20. The Maricopa County Attorney requested that the appellate court...
05:17pm Voters in Detroit overwhelmingly approved legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana by adults on private property in last month’s elections, but according to Michigan...
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, an ardent opponent of marijuana legalization, said Wednesday he would respect the will of the voters on Amendment 64 but cast doubt...
04:08pm Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) said in a statement Thursday that he intends to hold a hearing seeking information about how the Obama...
06:02pm The libertarian Cato Institute has published a Policy Analysis, “On the Limits of Federal Supremacy: When States Relax (or Abandon) Marijuana Bans.” The author of...
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said the Justice Department will announce “relatively soon” its policy on recently passed state measures legalizing the use of marijuana as “there is a...
02:54pm A mostly great piece in Rolling Stone this weekend, “Obama’s Pot Problem,” missed the mark on the federal preemption question — can the feds shut...
Now that states have started legalizing recreational marijuana, Rolling Stone explores if President Obama will continue the government’s war on weed, or tell the DEA and DOJ...
Arizona’s medical marijuana law is not pre-empted by federal drug laws because it does not stop the federal government from enforcing its laws, a Superior Court judge...
Adults in Washington state will be able to smoke marijuana legally on Thursday, even though the Justice Department has offered no guidance on the conflict with federal...
09:30pm In the wake of last week’s victories for marijuana legalization in Colorado and Washington, everyone is waiting to see how the federal government will respond....
11:43am All three Democratic members of Colorado’s Congressional delegation are planning legislation for next year that would exempt states enacting legalization systems for marijuana from the...
12:31pm A Washington Post story by Sari Horwitz reports that federal officials don’t know what they are going to do about marijuana legalization in Colorado and...
The well-respected, non-partisan Pew Charitable Trusts wrote a fairly balanced article in their newsletter about the possible consequences of legal marijuana, based on pending initiatives in Washington, Oregon, and...
In November, will voters in Washington, Oregon or Colorado decide to legalize recreational marijuana and potentially start a revolt? Any of these initiatives would put the states...
What if we’re going about this all wrong? What if we’re playing into the hands of the federal government and the medical marijuana model is a federally-authorized ruse...
The California Supreme Court dismissed review yesterday of an important appellate court ruling affecting medical marijuana dispensaries throughout the state. Specifically, the High Court threw out the...
I-502 is hardly perfect. The DUID clause (as recommended by federal drug czar Gil Kerlikowske) reeks of probable prejudice, there’s no protection from federal preemption and 25...
Don E. Wirtshafter moderates the most anticipated panel of Seattle Hempfest 2012, The Great I-502 Debate. Initiative 502 is on the Washington State ballot and would legalize personal possession...
